#India

India: Larsen & Toubro’s Power Transmission & Distribution Business has won orders worth $87 million in the international markets.

India, Mumbai: The FICG consortium of Cofely Fabricom, Iemants and CG has been awarded a contract for the EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm in the North Sea, for the supply and installation of the complete offshore substation for the German utility EnBW.

India, New Delhi: Cargill India has opened a manufacturing facility for Envirotemp™ FR3 natural ester transformer oil in Kurkumbh, in the state of Maharashtra.

India, Mumbai: Electrical equipment and transformer manufacturer Crompton Greaves Ltd has agreed to sell its international power business to the U.S. private equity firm First Reserve International Ltd for an enterprise value of €115 million ($126 million), according to VC Circle.

India, Andhra Pradesh: Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited (APEPDCL) will be embarking upon a major distribution network strengthening project in the urban and rural areas in the next couple of months.

India, Mumbai: Larsen & Toubro Power Transmission & Distribution Business has bagged new orders worth nearly $150 million in the domestic and international markets.

India, Haryana: India’s power company Discom is planning to install 34 transformers across all substations in the city of Gurgaon, Haryana to ensure consistent power supply during summer.

India, Tamil Nadu: 13 new substations have been proposed to be erected in Krishnagiri district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

India, Mumbai: Larsen & Toubro Limited has announced the company’s Power Transmission & Distribution division won orders worth over $147 million, including a major order for an electrification upgrade in the Middle East.

India, Delhi: In an attempt to augment the city’s transmission network, the Delhi Transco Limited (DTL) has commissioned six projects, completed at a cost of $20 million, which have increased Delhi’s transformation capacity by 740 MVA.

India: Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems (India) Pvt Ltd (TTDI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation Japan, plans to invest an additional $30 million into its Hyderabad factory by 2017, aiming to turn the facility as a global manufacturing hub.

India: Tata Power, India’s integrated power company, has partnered with Toshiba and Cargill to design and develop India’s first green natural ester based pad-mounted substation.

India, Jaipur: Indian transformer manufacturer Marsons has won an order worth $4 million from the Rajasthan state utility.

India, Mumbai: Avantha Group Company CG today announced that with effect from 3 February 2016, Laurent Demortier will be stepping down as the CEO and Managing Director of Crompton Greaves Limited (CGL).

Nepal, Kathmandu: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), the state-owned power utility, may soon import up to 220 MW of additional electricity from India.

India, Tamil Nadu: The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) is constructing new substations around the city and its suburbs to tackle the power situation during summer.

India, Pune: The new report published by MarketsandMarkets titled “Pad-Mounted Transformer Market by End User, by Phase, by Rated Power, by Insulation Type & by Region – Global Forecast to 2020” is now available.

India, Mumbai: Avantha Group Company CG has been awarded a contract from Denmark’s national electricity transmission system operator Energinet.dk to provide power transformers and gas insulated switchgear (GIS) for the Kriegers Flak wind farm project in the Baltic Sea.

India, Jammu and Kashmir: During a recent inspection, the Power Development Department (PDD) officials have found that over 5,000 transformers in Kashmir do not bear the names of manufacturing companies or date of their production.

India, Mumbai: An Indian power transformer manufacturer IMP Powers Ltd has successfully conducted the short circuit test at CPRI, Bangalore on four 100 MVA power transformers.

India, Mumbai: Larsen & Toubro Saudi Arabia LLC, a fully owned subsidiary of L&T, has won an order valued at $108.2 million for the construction of five 132 kV substations at Hail area from the National Grid, Saudi Arabia, a subsidiary of Saudi Electricity Company.

India, Uttar Pradesh: The capacity of Sarojini nagar substation in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh has been enhanced to 520 MVA with the installation of a new power transformer.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has granted $1 billion in financing to India’s national transmission company Power Grid Corporation of India (Powergrid) to fund renewable energy transmission and grid expansion projects.

India, New Delhi: India is getting ready to impose more curbs on steel imports, including introducing a safeguard duty, after a 20% import tax failed to contain losses for producers such as Steel Authority of India.